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capabilities {base} R Documentation

Report Capabilities of this Build of R

Description

Report on the optional features which have been compiled into this build of R.

Usage

capabilities(what = NULL)

Arguments

what
character vector or NULL, specifying required components. NULL implies that all are required.

Value

A named logical vector. Current components are

jpeg
is the jpeg function operational?

png
is the png function operational?

tiff
is the tiff function operational?

tcltk
is the tcltk package operational?

X11
always FALSE on Windows.

aqua
FALSE except on macOS.

http/ftp
does the internal method for url and download.file support http:// and ftp://
URLs? Always TRUE as from R 3.3.0.

sockets
are make.socket and related functions available? Always TRUE as from R 3.3.0.

libxml
is there support for integrating libxml with the R event loop? Always TRUE as from
R 3.3.0.

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fifo
are FIFO connections supported?

cledit
is command-line editing available in the current R session? This is false in non-
interactive sessions.

iconv
is internationalization conversion via iconv supported? Always true in current R.

NLS
is there Natural Language Support (for message translations)?

profmem
is there support for memory profiling? See tracemem.

cairo
is there support for the svg, cairo_pdf and cairo_ps devices, and for type =
"cairo" in the bmp, jpeg, png, and tiff devices?

ICU
is ICU available for collation? See the help on Comparison and icuSetCollate: it
is never used for a C locale.

long.double
does this build use a C long double type which is longer than double? Some
platforms do not have such a type, and on others its use can be suppressed by the
configure option --disable-long-double.

Although not guaranteed, it is a reasonable assumption that if present long doubles


will have at least as much range and accuracy as the ISO/IEC 60559 80-bit
extended precision format.

libcurl
is libcurl available in this build? Used by function curlGetHeaders and
optionally by download.file and url. As from R 3.3.0 always true for Unix-
alikes, and true for CRAN Windows builds.

See Also

.Platform and extSoftVersion (and links there) for availability capabilities external to R but
used from R functions.

Examples

capabilities()

if(!capabilities("ICU"))
warning("ICU is not available")

## See also the examples for 'connections'.

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